#Hatchettfield trilogy

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Obsessed with the set up and payoff in every hatchetverse show:

TGWDLM hides it in its comedy pretty effectively: "take out the head, and the whole thing goes down!" The key to the main conflict buried in a nonsense monologue by the one note jerk character

Black Friday takes full advantage of their magical psychic child to be cryptic and ominous: "two doors not one" probably being the most obvious example, but a notable one is "Cross" as I think it's not just about Wilbur but also about Lex, who reaches across the threshold into the black and white

(Admittedly, that last bit is probably a strecth)

And NPMD drops all pretenses and leans into the horror of a doomed narrative by telling you exactly what it's about: "it's true! Human sacrifices! Demonic rituals! Sex magic!" All promises fulfilled by the summoning and the subsequent bargain made between Grace and The Lords In Black.

Then there's like, chronologically reversed foreshadowing? Okay so like what I mean by that is like, so you know the Hatchetmen?

Yeah, the angry mob that killed the Waylons and their starry children cultists?

You ever notice how they're never praised? Never honored or spoken of fondly?

Oh sure the town is named after them, but that's probably because they were the only ones around left to name it, and they named it after that time they did that murder together.

But they keep being referred to as hatchet wielding maniacs, even as they are recalled as the ones who put a stop to an evil cult it doesn't change the fact they weren't good people either.

There are no good guys in that story, not really.

And uh, how did Ted put it again, exactly?

"There are no creeps. There are no heroes. There are only people who are alive, and people who are fucking dead!"

Hatchetverse is really fucking good at fulfilling narrative promises, is what I'm saying, I guess.

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Tell me more about your cool Halloween au!!!!

Me and a friend from the Sabrina discord server have taken our mutual love of a certain starkid music trilogy and decided to cast the miraculous characters as all the various people across the same town that all the stories take place in (and the eldrirtch gods because they're pretty important to the plot)

Meaning this au also features Chloe and XY briefly dating, Chloe working for Bob Roth in a toy shop, little Zoe able to talk to Kagami the eldritch spider God in her brain, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna make Roger the general in charge of the supernatural military division. (They call it peep*)

There's more, but I highly recommend actually watching the Hatchettfield trilogy since it's an incredibly Halloween appropriate, amazing series of horror comedy musical that are all free to watch on YouTube now and forever in perpetuity!

*P.E.I.P, tho I don't remember what the acronym stands for off the top of my head